IMMIGRATION: How it Works

July 1 marks the ending of the first year of operation of the new Immigration
Act. How does it work? How has it worked? Figures given out by the
State Department last week, on the number of immigrant visas issued
abroad since last July, while not complete for the entire year, tell
the story.

Nations whose quotas were filled or so nearly filled in early June as to
indicate that they would be entirely so by the end of the year
include: